| 7% of U.S. women at risk of unintended pregnancy who do not practice contraception account for almost half of the country’s unintended pregnancies |
Advance comprehensive women's health in Wisconsin by engaging, educating,
empowering and mobilizing individuals and organizations. |
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|  | | | | | Healthiest Wisconsin 2010: A Partnership Plan to Improve the Health of the Public identified 3 goals for Wisconsin - one of them being to "Eliminate Health Disparities". This goal seeks to eliminate health disparities with a particular emphasis on socially and economically disadvantaged population groups in Wisconsin. Elevating the health for populations most at risk elevates the health for all. Health disparities are best understood as significant gaps in health status and are the result of the interaction of many factors, both individual and societal. Some of these factors include age and gender differences, social inequalities, culturally inappropriate health care and education, inadequate financial resources, language barriers, geographic distinctiveness, the location and supply of health care providers, and insensitivity to sexual orientation or special health care needs. |
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| | | Elimination of health disparities is the driving force behind the Minority Health Program. It is also an overarching goal of Healthiest Wisconsin 2010 and is the standard set by most federal health programs in accordance with the 1998 President's Initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health. The Minority Health Program ensures that this goal is reinforced and instituted in departmental health policies and related statewide programs.
WI Minority Health Report |
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| | | UNNATURAL CAUSES was created to draw attention to the root causes of health and illness and to help reframe the debate about health in America. Economic and racial inequality are not abstract concepts but hospitalize and kill even more people than cigarettes. The wages and benefits we're paid, the neighborhoods we live in, the schools we attend, our access to resources and even our tax policies are health issues every bit as critical as diet, smoking and exercise.
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